"Bruce" wrote in message

"Recliner" wrote:

Actually, Chiltern has shown very little interest in picking up more
commuter traffic from the London suburbs. It's more interested in
becoming a regional operator, focused on moving people from towns
more than 50 miles to London. I say this sadly, as my nearest
station is on the Chiltern line, and it gets a derisory service.


That's probably because Chiltern gets derisory revenue from TfL for
services within Travelcard zones 1-6 and also stations from Amersham
to Rickmansworth.

For example, Chiltern has reduced peak services to and from Amersham
because the returns simply don't justify providing services. I feel
sure that this problem is shared by other TOCs with London termini,
plus cross-London services, so let's not use it as an excuse to bash
one particular TOC, eh?

I wasn't bashing Chiltern, just pointing out that its development
ambitions were further away from London than places like Watford (also
in the Oyster zone). To be fair, the Chiltern service at my station has
actually improved from almost non-existent to derisory in recent years,
but it's still not frequent enough to be useful when there's a Tube
station a couple of minutes walk away.